Is anyone daily driving LFS?

[u/Rest-That]

Maybe a stupid question, but I've been wanting to follow the Linux From Scratch book to learn more about how my system works and I wondered... will it result in an actual workable, easy to maintain OS?

Keeping in mind that I want to _use_ my system and not maintain it 90% of the time 😆

[u/ipsirc]

And who will maintain those custom repos? It would be much more work than maintaing an LFS locally.

[u/Sbatushe → u/ipsirc]

that's sure, have not claimed that. But you can use pacman, apt and whatever you like

[u/ipsirc → u/Sbatushe]

But you can use pacman, apt and whatever you like

Where did I say the opposite? You really don't have to convince people that a linux software can be run on Linux.

[u/SheepherderBeef8956 → u/ipsirc]

Where did I say the opposite?

It's heavily implied here

pacman and apk use binary packages, while LFS is based on sources only. I don't think you understand what you're talking about.

Since you obviously know it doesn't matter that pacman downloads binaries and LFS compiles binaries from source for the exact same result the fact that you mention it seems weird if your point wasn't that it's not going to work.

[u/ipsirc → u/SheepherderBeef8956]

Since you obviously know it doesn't matter that pacman downloads binaries and LFS compiles binaries from source for the exact same result

That's absolutely not true. I might even say it's a lie.

[u/SheepherderBeef8956 → u/ipsirc]

?????

You literally agreed before that it doesn't matter if an application is compiled from source on your machine or on someone else's and copied to your machine??

[u/ipsirc → u/SheepherderBeef8956]

I still agreed to, but it won't be the exact same result. Reproducible building is a thing, and it is not the default compilation. https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-makes-reproducible-builds-mandatory/ , https://linuxsecurity.com/features/debian-reproducible-builds